Agricultural machine.



I A. MOORE. AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 13, 1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 13. 1915.

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AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION HLED DEC. 13 1915.

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ii I c A) llillllllllg-lllll To i concern n J the county of St: Francis Arkansas, have invented new f il Improvements, 1n tgrlcultural mention "relates to, agricultural mal it Ihas forits object ,to produce machine of simpleand effecn for preparingthe seed bed, seed and covering the same iirtherob'ject of the invention is to :ij I:I1"1Clll Il8 of ,the class described ll bereq iipped .with grading members, supportedadjustably so as to grade the Llitfflfui;thenobject .of the invention is to produceya construction whereby the grading independently adjnstablein a suitnie,'afran1e being provided for each ember; and said frames being by mountixliin a main carrying, frame theQrading members may be raised o i i giroiiiidin'hen themachine is to be 11 ec;mums changing or affecting the perndj'ustment thereof.

furtherf Wconnection with the grading smoothing device or sled for pened by afurrow opener. ther eet of the invent on is to m a form ,he ini With the ofjfltl emai'ts c'oiiperating to proved structure,

ap ear as the nati .ef the in etter understood, same conthe niprdwd construct ir'a d novel 'ent and combination of parts i N il l jbe hereinafter fully described indliiartidularlyspointed out in the claims.

i he accompanying drawings has been vhen desired. V gs,--F1gure l'isa top plan a mach ne constructed in accordance Specification of Letters Patent.

' which the following is a speci- 'of the locking, disks for said rods.

n rface; of the soilin advance of the planter. to

'ect of the invention is to ebottom ofrthe seedbcd which am. Improve the construction and,

and othcrends in view which a simple and preferred form of i.

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i menswear. 14-, 1916.

Application filed liecember 13, 1915. I SeriaI No: 66,608.

with the invention. Fig, 2 'is a side iew of nowirthat I,ALEXANDER Moons, a the Unite'd States,;res1d1ng atthe same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken 'on the line'3-3 in Fig. 1. Fig.

tion. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail view on a largerscale taken longitudinally through one of the tubular adjusting rods and related parts. Fig. 7 is a face view of one Fig. 8

is a detail plan view of one of the combined drags and barrows. 3

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The mainframe A of thennproved machine is composed of side niembcrs 15 and front and rear cross bars 1 6, 17, whereby said side members are spaced and connected produce a substantially rectangular frame. Said frame is also provided with a longitudinal center bar lSwhic'h is connectcd with the side members by means of cross braces 19 with which auxiliary frames -20 are hingedly connected by means of interengaging staples and eyes 21, 22, or in any other convenient manner that will perniit the said auxiliary framc sto swing freely between the center bar 18 and the side mem bers 15. Each of the frames 20 isyprovided with a spring actuated latch bolt which when projected by its actuating spring 24;

will engage the front 'cross' barlG of the,

, main frame, said front cross bar being probar 18. The several housings contain vertically slidable rack bars 28 which extend dmvnwardly, through the respective frames 20 and serve to support the grader blades 29 with which the lower ends of said rack bars are-pivotally connected, said grader blades occupying rearwardly convergent position-which is due to the above described location of the housings upon the respective frames, the forward ends of the grader lot blades being connected with rack bars which are located adjacent to the outer sides of the main frame and in advance of the bars with winch the rearward ends of the grader blades are'connected, said' last mentioned i being located'adjaeent to the center bar of the main' frame. :Each-- hgusing 26, 27-- alsov affords bearings for a tubularoperating rod 30 carrying a pinion'31 that engagestlje rack bar'ZS, thereby enabling said rack bars to be moved up and down for the purpose of effecting vertical adjustment independently of 'the front and rear] ends of "the grader blades. Each tubular operating rod carries at its rearward end a hand Wheel 32 ,having a lug or bracket 33 on which'is ful-,

: crumeda lever 3 pwitlr-which is connected one end of a rod 35 that extends within the tubular rod and is connected with-a slide 36. having an arm 37 that extends through a slot 38 in the tubular rod. The arm 37 car ri'es. a pin or bolt 39 that is guided through an aperture' lO in a collar or flange. 4:1 on' the rod 30, said bolt beingad'apted to engage anyone of a'plurality of recesses 'or' apertures 42 in the face of an annulardisk or'ring 43 that is fixed on the housing with which the tubular rod is associated. The

' slide 36 is projectediwithin the tubular; rod

by the action of a spring 44, whereby the I locking pin or bolt-39 will be maintained in 'engagement with the recess 42 engaged "thereby, therebylocking the'tubular rod se- Zso saidrod at the desired adjustment. manipulating the lever 34, the slide carrying the locking may be retracted, there by'permitting the tubular operating rod tocu-rely againstrotation and servlng to maintain the rack bar actuated bythe pinion on be, rotated about its axis forjthe purpose of produce a level igradeya hill-ora The machine will be facilitated. -'T.he rearward '2 end of the frameis supported by means of ependent axleflmember 47, bearings for which are provided in brackets 48, 4900115 nected with and dependin from the mai frame at the rear endv oft esame. Y

ofthe other, saidrac'kj bars being connected at their lower-ends witha sled or drag 53, the purposc of which is to smooth the seed bed, to ci nslrthe clods and topulverize the soil. The member 53 is of substantially triangular co'ntourwith the apex turned to the i gfront and having a dou' 'n ardly and rear. wardly inclined bot-Loin face 54to engage the soil and to crush theclods. For the vertical' adjustment of therack bars 51, 52 a tubular operatingrod 55isprovided which in every respect is similar tothe tubular ;-op'erating rods 30 hereinbeforedescribed, ex-

. forward end of the main frame is, supported by means of caster wheels 45, whereby the guiding and turning of the ground wheels 46, each mounted on anincept that it carries two pinions 66, .57 for engagement with the respective rack bars Connected .with I and extending rear-l wardlyfrom the. rearward cross bar 17 of the main frame are the side members 58 of a seat supporting frame, said side members being connected at their rearward ends by a crossbar 59 onwhichthe seat 60 is mount- I ed. Each of the: side' bars;58isupports a foot lever 61 having a treadle or pedal 62 at'one end, the -ot1er end'of each foot lever being oonnecte by a wire,. cord or other of said frames-to be retracted. :The rear 4 crossbar 17. of the main frame is provided with lugs6a on which levers 65 are pivoted, each of said levers beingcconnected by a flexible connection 66 with the-forward end of one off the frames-20, said flex'ble xconnections being guided over, pulley =67 supported on brackets 68 near the front end' of the main frame and above the front ends of the hinged frames-20. It'Will be seen that by manipulating the levers65 after retracting the latch bolts. theforward ends of'the frames 20 may be lifted, thus lift-v ing'the grader blades carried by said. frames clear of, the ground without disturbing the relativepositlons of the front and rear ends of said 'graderblades. The levers 65,are

providedwith stop members 69 adapted to engage rack segments 70 for the purpose of sustaining said levers and related parts at Jvarious adjustments.

"The rear cross bar 1/? of the main frame isprovided with rearwardly extending lugs or ears 71 with which links-"72 are pivotally connected, the lower ends of said links be-j aforward direction will be obstructed by contact of said links with therearward face of the cross bar 17. The lower ends-of lthe links 72are connected togetherby a rod 73 Thecenter bar 18 of the main frame supports near the rear end thereof'a housing 50? which is substantially siinilar to the house" pings" 26,27 except thatitcontains twov ver I tically niovablerack bars 51', 52, on'einfront on which the p'lanter franie P is pivotally members 74f which are ou anectedtogether of which is v similar to that of; the housings 26,;27'and 50," said; 'hojiising containing a vertically adjustablerack bar 77 for the adjustment 'which i a tubular operating rod 78 1S? providedf'whichf is jin every/respect ,ing capable of swinging freely in a rear-' ward dlrection while swinging movement in similar to, the operating rods 30 hefelnbefore described, ETherackbar (7, extends do w rdly through the cros b 75 d 1 8.

lower end with a rockpivotally connected with fear'wardly from a j furforward end i of which i'engaging eyes or links rametis supported. By

*ble of being vertically p ngmechanism wh c may tenet/ seed that ist b i and axle member beh interengagmg gear at? their rear ends by a anduat its up er :end an gframefcarries a handlep member S t-engaging 'erebyuthe lever and resustained in adjusted i v At such time the llalso serve to paekithe wing to lift the planter ilighnfl wellas the transnachine from place to ired to use a harr ow the improved machine ng the soil. I For this a a; description, taken in 3 on which theforward f the rack. bar 77 the i a a" furrow ofthe deth reception of seed? The orts a seed shopper 84v nstruction, according to t ing actuated hy a shaft from one; of, i the axle the planter frame downwardly extending a said side "members are me 90 i's pivoted, said its lower end a ground he sideimem ers 58 of I wheel supported main frame, auxiliary 3 'is connected withthe a, er end of theflframe 90 or in some other contwill be observed that aiiter frame is normally a atilted position, the portioned that when thus 1 cnerwill be in; aground at has been covered by, v manipulating the lever )e moved to an upright,

tent as to elevate the f the ground, thereby v ssisting in breaking the icial'ier 523 may beproceth 99, as indicated 1n nexed, the operation and advantages of this invention will bereadily understood. It \'\'Ill be seen thatI have produced an organized machine of simple and inexpensive construction for tilling the ground, prepai-- ing a seed bed and-planting the seed ata single operation, thereby saving much time. The ad ustable parts of themachine, such as the grader blades, the hinged frames cardrying the same, the sled' or drag which con- 'st tutes a crushingand smoothing device,

and other parts are within the convenient control of the driver or operator, it being jnnderstood that the tubular operating rods whereby adjustments of some of the Vertiso callymovable parts are effected, as well as. i

Seed planting mechanism of any desired understood that seed ofany kind maybe if planted by the improved device and that the y mechanism is derived from one o 'the ground wheels of the main frame.

power for actuatingthe moving arts ofthe Having thus described the invention, what is claimed asnew, is r 1. In a machine of the class frames ingedly connected therewith, spring actuate latch members carried by said auxdescribed, a a i iliar frames and en a in t-he main frame for-operation, means; for retracting the thus released. v r i a 2; In a machine of the class described, a

bar, side bars, and cross bars connecting the center bar with the .r-side bars, auxiliary Ito sustain the auxiliary frames in position I spring actuated latch members to release the r auxiliary frames, and} means for effecting ad ustment of the auxiliary frames-When iio i by the auxiliary frames and engaging the main frame, means for retracting the latch 1 members, means for eifectingadjustment of the auxiliary frames when the latch memj a 'graderblades, one beneath each auxiliary frame, rackbars connected with the respec-j bers" are retracted, rearwardly convergent tive grader blades adjacent to the ends thereof'and extending upwardly throughhousingson the respective auxiliary frames, and

means for effecting independent'admstment of the rack bars and for securing the same in adjusted position.

a 3. In a machine oflthe class described, the

combination with a wheel supported main frame, of two auxiliary frames hingedly connected therewith at the two sides thereof,

rearwardly convergent grader blades so conwheel supported main frame having a center a iao blade :'to he independently vertically adjusted, latch' nembers for securing the anx- 'ihary frames inposltion tor operatlon,

'means for retraetiug the latch member and means for villa-tingadjustment of the free ends of the auxiliary :lrames including hand levers, suitably guided llexilile connections between the hand levers and the auxiliary "frames, and -means for securing the hand levers in position. at various adjustments.

41. In a maelnne oi the class descr bed, a wheel supported mam .trame having seed bedpreparing members atdjustably eon- V neeted therewith and learri'ed thereby, a

-planter frame hingedly connected with and trailing in rear of the main frame, a tiltable v frame connected with the rearward endot' the planter frame and having a ground en 'a in Wheel said frame hein ravitation- O D D 7 E3 3 r ally maintained in a tilted position by the weight of the planter f1 ame, means f0reffer-ting adjustment of the tiltable tralne to k n'eeted' therewith v a'liousing on the planter frame through which said rack bar is guided ancl'ineansfor'efleeting adjustment of said rack bar.' e.

In testnnony whereof I athx my signature m presence of two wltnessts.

ALEXAN one MOORE. lVitnesses v v JOHN PRICE, V I

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